Re: [T3] DBB alternator :Reply to jim..long

["The Rossos" <CROSSO@peoplepc.com>]

<x-flowed>> Mike's was the worst I've ever seen. The commutator had been machined off
> center by about .030". It was trivial to fix, but it NEVER should have
> happened. No one with any sense should have turned that commutator with 
> the
> armature flopping around like that.
>
> I sent Mike a generator which I had worked over, and he sent me back his 
> bad
> one. I really just wanted to see it because I wanted to see what was wrong 
> that
> had caused him all that trouble. I was very surprised at what I found, and 
> it
> had been a genuine Bosch rebuild.

Mine was a genuine Bosch rebuild.  I remember the story you told of Mike's. 
When mine failed after 200 miles, I looked inside of mine and it was exactly 
as you had described Mike's.

Dave Rosso
Pittsburgh, PA
'69 Fastback
'01 Boxster 


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